Title: The incorporation of environmental issues in the Simmelian metropolis: a (de)construction in light of the Bourdieusian sociology

Authors: Rafael Borim-de-Souza; Jacques Haruo Fukushigue Jan-Chiba; Beatriz Lima Zanoni

Addresses: Postgraduate Program in Administration, Centre of Applied Social Studies, Sate University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil ' Postgraduate Program in Administration, Centre of Applied Social Studies, Sate University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil ' Postgraduate Program in Administration, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Abstract: This theoretical essay was developed with the objective of (de)constructing, by means of a Bourdieusian interpretation, the incorporation of environmental issues in the Simmelian metropolis. Regarding the consideration of environmental issues in the social construction of the metropolitan reality, some reflections were reached, which are exposed in sequence. The metropolis is an ideological archetype that debates the environment from within itself, which is why the metropolitan shares environmental concerns only if it is effectively threatened by them, a consequence of its objective relationships, which place too much value on the occupational aspect of life in the metropolis. The metropolitan social order, by countless media devices, legitimises the submission of the environment to the socio-economic interests of those who reside in the metropolis. Linked to this aim, dissociations of voices that diverge from the metropolitan environmental ideal are necessary to guarantee less conflicting socialisation of environmental issues.

Keywords: Simmelian metropolis; Bourdieusian sociology; environmental issues.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2021.116812

International Journal of Sustainable Society, 2021 Vol.13 No.2, pp.90 - 115

Received: 29 Jun 2020
Accepted: 09 Mar 2021
Published online: 03 Aug 2021 *

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